Meshadi Azizbekov

Meshadi Azizbekov (6 January 1876-20 September 1918) was a Soviet revolutionary from Azerbaijan who led a failed communist uprising in Baku in 1918.

Biography
Meshadi Azizbekov was born on 6 January 1876 in Baku, Baku Governorate, Russian Empire (in present-day Azerbaijan). He became an electrical engineer and had fluent command of Russian and German, and he took part in the 1902 St. Petersburg factory workers' strikes and in the 1905 Revolution. As a member of the Bolsheviks, he was elected to the Baku Commune in 1917, and he protected the Baku Azeris from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation during the "March Days" massacres. He was captured by anti-Soviet forces while fleeing Baku in 1918, and he was executed by firing squad.